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Perhaps one of the most challenging concepts in yiddeshkeit is explaining the concept of “zman moishiach” in clear and intelligible terms that can be understood by a poishete yid who has not read all the meforshim and more contemporary meforshim that are tossed around on threads here in the CR. The terminology used is abstract with loads of superlative adjectives that most would have a hard time relating to and understanding how their daily lives would change on Day 1 of a post-Moishiach world.
In a rare case of agreement, UJM’s comments about retirement is entirely correct. Subsequent to his “retirement” as a neurosurgeon and NASA rocket scientist, he has been working as Walmart “Greeter” for nearly a decade, sharing his charm, warmth and empathy with all who pass through the doors.
On a serious note, I think we all know individuals whose “decline” either began or accelerated substantially following their retirement, especially for those whose life and social network revolved around their professional engagement and structure of getting up every AM, driving to the office, checking emails every 5 minutes etc.I think OD has it right. If you want to be true to your chutznik hashkafah, go chutz. Baltimore, Lakewood or Aspen.
“Between the chabad rant threads, the israel rant threads, and the fake news….
How could you omit the all-time CR favorite, 328 separate threads on variations o the “Shidduch crisis” or perhaps thats what you meant by the “fake news”??
Chutznik chassidish as in willingness to hold a PT job while learning?? Employment opportunities vary substantially across the various locations suggested above.
Avram: You miss the point. At todays precious metal prices, Reb Josef could have made a fortune on recycling the egel ha’zahov. He is always thinking ahead.
What is your style and what do you mean by “too Israeli”?? would you prefer a Bedouin tent close to Chevron? You talk about a “cheap dirah”. Lots of those available in older buildings in both frum areas of Jerushalayinm and outer ring suburbs., some of which are firetraps with dangerous wiring, propane stoves, no a/c and dark but what you pay for is what you get.
Ruchniyus versus Gashmiyus is a false alternative if there is a balance and the choices are correctly framed. Not all gadolim live in dingy apartments with few amenities and are dependent on modest donations for their survival. Nor does toras moshe or the concept of hidur mitzvah dictate spending tens of thousands of dollars to fly the family to South Florida and rent a Villa for yom tov or to spend $75,000 for a new all electric Tesla or BMW to be mehader the woke mitzvah of tikun olam. A balanced life of learning with time for a parnassah assures that one’s life is not driven by an instiable appetite for opulence.
noMessorah: So with all your study of what chazal have brought down and taught us on the relevant subject matter, is it OK for a frum yid to sort the trash into regular and recycling bags on pickup day or is it a bigger mitzvah to avoid the woke solution and to combine all the garbage and drive 25 miles to dump it ourselves in the landfill??
“The issue is what do you say to someone who is just sitting and not learning?
GET A JOB!!!
NYC will drag out the implementation of the order and find “new” conditions that will have to be litigated.
Court also ruled this morning that denominational prayer by public employees is OK in public events like football games, school meetings, etc.
We will know z’man moishiach is imminent when we go a week here in the CR w/o debating weather Reb A was a bigger talmid chacham or more chashuvah than Rav B, or a more influential posek etc. etc.
Aseh l’cha Rav (Rabbanit) and stick with him (her) until you have reasons not to.
P.S. Just trying to elicit a response on a slow, cloudy Monday AM@CS: You suffer from a low chuckle threshold
CA: Oy. Not very funny…..well below your usually high standard for humor.
CA: I never equated Agudah to MAGA. I said that segments of the so-called New Right Christian evangelicals would throw yidden under the proverbial bus “faster than you can say MAGA”.
I have great respect for Agudah’s work, both in DC and state capitals. I have no real insight but suspect that R ‘Chaim Dovid Zwiebel is not a big MAGA fan but has to deal with political world as it is. I’m concerned for reasons noted earlier that there are risks for Agudah and any of the politically active yiddeshe mosdos to get too far out over their skis on some of these alliances.
Enough said.For those too young to recall the last real effort to use UJM’s price control model to address escalating energy prices, the Carter administration attempted to impose price caps on crude oil and distillate products during the OPEC oil embargo in the late 1970s. It was an unmitigated disaster and did little other than further shrink domestic supplies and provide a generation of lawyers with full employment in litigating lawsuits against the DOE rules which weren’t finally resolved until 2005.
“I’m talking about the Agudah and you’re switching to evangelicals, they are both “religious” but that’s it..
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I’m not equating Agudah or any yiddeshe mosdos to the Evangelical Christian groups with whom we occasionally find common positions. I am very skeptical of the their motives and longer-term agenda for Yidden and EY. Personally, I’m not all that interested in being a participant in their armageddon plans for z’man moishiach. Some of the same evangelical wingnuts that Trump invited for the opening of the U.S. Embassy in yerushalayim are also part of a traveling circus with former General Michael Flynn, the Pillow guy and other meshugaim advocating for making the bible (aka NT) and “God’s Natural Law” the ultimate governing framework for American jurisprudence.
Where is Jimmy Carter now that we need him??
AnonJew: Your gratuitous use of the term “proabortion” women presumes to speak for all woman who believe that every woman should be able to make her own decision on terminating an unwanted or risky pregnancy, rather than having the outcome forced upon her.
CA: Not “All” but a significant number of those who profess their love and support for their “Jewish brothers and sisters” view it all through the prism of a fundamentalist Christian world view. While we make convenient political allies on some public policy issues, its important to keep that perspective in the background
“We would have ceased to exist long ago, if we had subscribed to Judeo-Christian values as the basis of we are…
nOmesorah makes a really important point. Those like Agudah who are issuing press releases applauding the Roe decision and kvelling about the Republicans pledges to restore America to its founding “Judeo-Christian” values really have zero interest in the Judeo part. While you may see an occasional frum yid with yeshivsh lvush, black hat and beardl lined up in the photo ops, their concept of yiddeshkeit is more aligned with Jews for Jesus and evangelical messianic dogma. They would throw us under the bus quicker than you can say MAGA (not that the left-wing Dems are any better).
Geez…..this thread is making R’ Yosef seem like an erudite commentator.
“Southern Lebanon and Jordan are both parts of Eretz Yisroel with inexpensive housing”
Yup, but still a bit difficult to find a minyan, mikvah or chassideshe hashgacha.
What about price caps on Turkish taleisim and esrogim from Calabria??
“You are truly ignorant of the realities of the legal system…”
CT Lawyer: I’m certain R Yosef is fully aware but is just getting off on eliciting his usual trollish responses. As noted elsewhere, Kavanaugh’s concurrence today was explicit on the right to travel out of state for abortions in states such as New York and yours where it is entirely legal. In fact, a law just enacted protects medical providers and patients seeking abortion care who come to Connecticut from other states along with expanding access to abortion in Connecticut.
UJM: Your application for EITHER model would likely trigger immediate legal filings by CR posters under Article 63-A of the NYS Civil Practice Laws and Rules (“Red Flag Law”) setting forth the facts and circumstances justifying the issuance of a temporary extreme risk protection order by a State Court when there is “probable cause to believe the respondent is likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to himself, herself, or others, as defined in paragraph one or two of subdivision (a) of section 9.39 of the mental hygiene law.” Yesterday’s SCOTUS decision had no effect on such laws.
A person whose birchos hashachar include “shelo asani ish”.
Ask your LRP for a suggestion regarding some individual ben torah who is on the cusp of having to leave kollel for economic reasons. Assuming you are dealing with a modest sum, spreading it out over multiple mosdos is unlikely to yield a visible outcome.
AAQ: But chazal bring down the inyan of how to always be “oleh” on returning home when you live in a cave as some of the troglodytes clearly prefer.
The little saychel I occasionally summon is far from “common”
UJM: Thanks for the clarification…..assuming you lived downhill from the cheider, you would have to walk “uphill” in the morning but in theory, that would result in a “downhill” walk to return home, unless your parents moved during the day to a new home further uphill from the cheider, which would reflect TWO uphill barefoot treks in the snow, but only for ONE day. Perhaps you are speaking metaphorically in terms of your raising up your neshama through the time you spent learning your alfeph beis, harassing the girls at the adjacent beis yakov during recess or building LEGO models of the beis hamikdash such that every trek in the snow was an uphill spiritual journey.
And whats wrong with pineapple chicken on Shabbos versus some fatty overcooked red meat with beans that threatens both gastronomical norms and global warming.
Seems something about bathroom humor really attracts you and Mr. Saychel. You aren’t the same person are you?
‘And even within frum communities you’ll find vastly different parenting styles between Williamsburg compared to Lakewood compared to Five Towns’
Assuming this is a serious comment, HOW are the parenting styles different as between Willy and Lkwd??
Shalom, v’livracha. Have you tried “Emes Social”. No limit on multiple dysfunctional personas.
Even if you disagree with R’ Tendler on many issues, perhaps still show some respect by referencing him as “Rav” (an omission that I’ve been guilty of on occasion as well). On many issues where his views are not widely accepted, I’d still give his analysis greater weight given his vastly greater intellectual understanding of the underlying science relative to most of his peers.
I also noted that your listing only includes 11 of lamud vov CR tzadikim
Singular Satmar: Was that a joke? Cricket IS AT&T network.
“Brandon” was misinterpreted by a sportscaster from an obscene anti-Biden chant by a bunch of rednecks at a NASCAR event and as become a codeword for X-Biden. Dofi shows his usual adolescent tendencies with the same stupid commentary on any new post.
” I did not have the right hashgacha..
First, kol hakovod to you and much hatzlacha in your efforts. 1a2b3c is right on point with respect to the support from Rebeeim such as R’ Nota Schiller and R’Mendel Weinbach at Ohr Samayach and other baalei tshuvah yeshivos and mosdos offering extensive support networks.
P.S. I think you mean “hashkafah” so don’t be surprised if someone inadvertently refers you to the Badatz Eidah ChareiditImproved efficiency through robotics and AI will partially offset the declining work force issue. For EY, its a tension between having higher population growth but finding socially and politically acceptable programs for assuring younger men and women are at least working part-time and contributing to GDP growth rather than being net recipients of social welfare and transfer payments funded by a declining workforce.
“I expect the naviim who post here will have a definitive answer”.
We do. Economists define a “recession” as a decline in industrial activity using the standard measure of the value added created through the production of goods and services (GDP) in two successive quarters. Currently, such a decline in GDP appears likely for Q4 2022 and Q1 2023 based on multiple forecasts but reverting back to positive growth by Q2 or Q3 2023. Thus, we are likely to have a recession, but relatively short-lived within an overall secular growth trend.
“Brandon strifled the domestic gas production hence less supplies…”
As someone observed, the level of ignorance here is breathtaking…
The mods prefer we don’t post URL links but if you go to the DOE website (EIA.gov) and luse the dropdown menu to link to “U.S. Natural Gas production”) you will note that the monthly natural gas production when Trump left in January 2021 was 2.876 MCF…..the most recent monthly production for April 2022 was 3.187 MCF.
Conventional wisdom suggests that 3.187 is a larger volume than 2.876. The figures for May and June will be even larger since producers ramped up marginal production capacity when Russia invaded Ukraine in March 2022. As world prices spiked over the past 90 days, foreign demand made it substantially more profitable to convert U.S. production to LNG exports to Europe where it was priced at $30/MMBTU (including conversion and transport costs) compared to domestic commodity prices (Henry Hub of about $9/MMBTU).“The Gedolim of the yeshiva world said not to go so we can’t go. Conversation over”
Not everyone holds by the hashkafah of the publishers of a social media site, even a frum site. Check with your LRP.
Oil companies are neither public utilities subject to cost of service regulation nor charitable organizations focused on public welfare. They function in a global market where prices for crude are set largely by OPEC production decisions and distillate products by refining capacity and short-term demand. We don’t tell sellers of $300 esrogim from Italy to “be patriotic” and sell their products for $50 so the poishete yid can be mehader mitzvah like his affluent brehthren. Their current prices aren’t even the highest (in real terms) relative to prior supply disruptions. Biden’s stupid comment to “be patriotic” and cut prices is indicative of the political and market economics naivete on BOTH sides of the debate.
With the exception of a relatively smalll (35K b/d) refinery west-Texas refinery built in 2019, there hasn’t been a major new refinery built in the U.S. in nearly 50 years spanning both Democratic and Republican administrations. Existing refineries are running near 100 percent capacity so even if we had additional crude imports, they couldn’t be processed in the near term. The combination of a post-covid surge in demand and the loss of Russian distilled product are the primary cause of recent price spikes and it has little to do with Biden. In the longer term, however, when demand levels return to normal and Russian product is back on the market, Biden’s policies could keep prices at above market levels since his “excess profit” rhetoric and constraints on new pipelines will limit incentives for expanding U.S. refining capacity. Refiners don’t want to invest in new capacity unless they are assured of reasonable returns and those assurances are sorely lacking.
a m Condensate splitters are distillation units that process condensate, which is lighter than crude oil. Splitter capacity is included as atmospheric distillation units in U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.
However, the newest refinery with significant downstream unit capacity is Marathon’s facility in Garyville, Louisiana. That facility came online in 1977 with an initial atmospheric distillation unit capacity of 200,000 b/cd, and as of January 1, 2021, it had a capacity of 578,000 b/cd.
Who decides who is and isn’t s Gadol?
Good question. I’ve always wondered about that.